"The devil came here," Chavez said. "Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of."
He then made the sign of the cross, brought his hands together as if praying and looked up to the ceiling.
Chavez's words drew tentative giggles at times from the audience, but also some applause.
Is he friggin' serious? I mean, can anyone take him seriously? Other than Harry Belefonte, Jesse Jackson, Cindy Sheehan, and whatever other oddballs rub elbows with him, of course. And he takes a page from Osama to recommend some lunatic's book? I'm beginning to think that Hugo is too nuts to even qualify for the Axis of El Vil let alone the Axis of Evil. He's into insane funny territory rather than being dangerously insane, as Ahmadinejad is. My God, when reporters asked President Bush about Hugo's speech, the President just should have laughed long and hard and then asked for the next question.
Hugo wore a suit this time. Mark my words, Jeffeman will have tights and a big magenta "J" emblazoned on his chest the next time he appears before the tittering representatives of the sainted international community. Jeffeman! Able to leap aging Cuban dictators in a single bound!
I wouldn't even want to waste a JDAM on him. The people of Venezuela have my deepest sympathies.
